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Hi All,   I've been out of the HA for a while.  What HA I had was working and life/kids took over all my time.   Now with iOS 10 breaking Elve Mobile I am something forced to get back into this.   My current setup: - ELK M1 - ALC and UPB Lighting - Aprilaire T-Stats - Nuvo Essentia Whole House...

I started with HA about 6 or 7 years ago.  I used CQC, then Dean hang it up for a while.   I switched to Elve...got some automation going, had kids and have been using it but not developing functions for the last few years.   I'm replacing my home server (server hardware on 7 years now and parts...

I want to start of saying i'm not a doomsday kind of guy and i don't actually think the end is near or anything like that. However last year i spent 2 time a week withouth power and this has made me want to be better prepared for these kind and other kinds of disasters. I consider this forum...

Hi Gents, I recently got a Aprilaire Hudmifier model 400 installed (profesionally, as per manufacturers directions, manual mode). I also have APrilaire 8870 communicating thermostats and an Aprilaire humidity sensor model 8062 ...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148614 This same unit (I think) i saw today at Costco for $129...

Ok..so i live in Connecticut and we've been without power for 2 days and likely to be out longer...i finally scored a generator and wired it into my main panel... My UPB light switch (HAI) is acting very strange and the light will not stay on properly..it will dim/brighten on it's own and...

OK...so i've been searching high and low for a CCTV cam to function as the baby cam. My requirements are: - No IP, I need it to be analog so it's easy to integrate with SageTV - NO IR LEDS, after doing some research i've i don't want IR lights beaming down on my kid - Day/Night (night with a...

So i'm starting to look at doing some serious work on my TouchScreen (TS) interfaces. I'm trying to figure out some conventions. The nice thing about a TS is that buttons and such can change functions...but it also can be confusing. I'm looking to see if there is any type of convention. I...

So...not really HA related but wanted to get some input from you bright minds anyway. The wife and I have a baby coming in a month or 2 and we also have 2 cats. Our cats LOVE to lay on us while sitting, watching,tv and sleeping This is obviously a cause for concern wrt to the upcoming little...

Gents, I'd like to know what you guys use for off-site backup. My server gets backed up nightly to a 2nd drive in the same server so deal with any drive failures or deleted files. The production drive is Raid 1 to begin with as well. Currently i've been making irregular back-ups (once every...

Hi All What have you all used to draw your home for your HA purpose (show door and windows sensors lights etc) and for which automation package did you use? I am considering drawing it in Visio (I am not a Visio fan but am more familiar with it than anything else). Do i leave the windows are...

I have started this thread to document my experiment with virtualizing the Nuvo Music Port. The reason for this experiment is to test if the Music Port and it software will run in a virtual environment. Currently i have it running on my main Home Automation server along with a while bunch of...

So I'm starting to get motivated again to do some automatic and was looking at the garage door opener. During construction i had pre-wired for a garage door sensor at the top of the door, so that should be taken care off pending purchase of a sensor. I have a conduit nearby the control...

Hi All, About 6 months ago i saw a post about a device that you tie into the interconnect between your HV smokes sensors, it then had a relay or something from where you could tie it into an alarm panel. I've seen schematics posted on how to make your own before, but this seemed to be an off...

ok...yes i shoudl have made some backups....but i didn't..soooo... I have some important stuff on a USB stick and the stick started misbehaving, it cannot be read in windows. It gives me 'semaphore time out period expired' error. A google search give me some options which i've tried...but not...

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Hi All, I'm looking for some friendly non legal binding (insert other legal disclaimers as necessary here) advice for my basement. I mounted some additional plywood next to my electrical panel and this is where by ELK and all other HA gear is sitting. Since i ran out of oulet (one had the one...

Gents, Can somebody recommend a good USB stick? The requirements are in order of importance: - Reliable - Sturdy - Attached Cap - Largish capacity - Small physical size I dont' have much faith and the cheap plastic thingies when they dangle from your keychain all day.

Hey all, I put a lot of tags on my cables a few months ago using the Rhino 3000 and DYMO Flexible 1/2" Nylon Tape And primarilly on the cables where the tables were on a bend in the cable they are coming loose around the edges. They are not falling of, but just starting to come loose. See...

How sensitive is the ELK databys to interference and such? Woudl it be OK to terminate the field keypad wiring onto a 66 block in the wiring room and then pick it up from there to a Databus hub? You can then use a pre-made patch cable and the adapter linked below to connect from the 66 block...